There are a number of advantages in seeing a great movie when it is first released.
As time passes, those options and opportunities diminish – which in turn can diminish demand and a sense of immediacy.
After all, at that time he was in the process of recovering from a notorious accident, and, according to him, he wouldn’t have been able to remember it even if he had seen it.
This is a line of thinking that can ultimately explain why it is that famed author Stephen King only wound up very recently watching director David Fincher’s 1999 cult classic Fight Club… but on top of that, he also has a very good reason for missing the feature during its initial theatrical run.